Grammar / pronouns 8

78 • Parti. Accidence

The genitive case of the pronouns everyone and everybody is used as an attribute.

... he almost forgot the nearly intolerable discomfort of his new clothes in the entirely intolerable discomfort of being set up as a target for everybody's gaze and everybody's laudations.

(Twain)

When preceded by a preposition everyone and everybody may be used as a prepositional indirect object.

How know? And without knowing how give such pain to everyone? (Galsworthy)

There is a tendency in Modern English to use they and their after the pronouns every, everybody and everyone.

Everyone thinks they have the answer.

Every student has to hand in their paper today.

In formal English, the tendency has been to use he and his in such cases.

Everything may be applied to things, animals and abstract notions. In the sentence it is used as subject, predicative, and object.

No one will see us. Pull down that veil and everything will be all right. (London) (SUBJECT)

Of course, class is everything, really. (Galsworthy) (PREDICATIVE)

He was not long in assuming that Brissenden knew everything.

(London) (OBJECT)

4. Either has two meanings: (a) each of the two, (b) one or the other.

The trail wasn't three feet wide on the crest, and on either side the ridge fell away in precipices hundreds of feet deep.

(London)

Then he remembered the underwriters and the owners, the two masters a captain must serve, either of which could and would break him and whose interests were diametrically opposed.

(London)

In the sentence either is usually used as attribute or part of the subject (see the above examples).

Chapter IV. The Pronoun • 79

5. Other, another. Other denotes some object different from the one mentioned before.

Other has two numbers: singular — other; plural — others. It has two cases: the common case and the genitive case (other's, others').

He walked at the other's heels with a swing to his shoulders and his legs spread unwittingly... (London)

In the sentence it is used as subject, object, and attribute.

After tea the others went off to bathe... (Mansfield) (SUBJECT)

When he brought his suitcase down into the hall, Isabel left the others and went over to him. (Mansfield) (OBJECT)

But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids. (Hardy) (ATTRIBUTE)

When preceded by a preposition it may be used as a prepositional indirect object:

You are not fair to the others. (Voynich)

Anotherhas, two meanings: (1) 'a different one', (2) 'an additional one'.

He has learnt sheep-farming at another place, and he's now mastering dairy work. (Hardy)

Yes, thought Soames, another year of London and that sort of life, and she'll be spoiled. (Galsworthy)

Another may be used as subject, object, and attribute.

The lantern hanging at her wagon had gone out but another was shining in her face much brighter than her own had been. (Hardy) (SUBJECT)

Often among the women he met, he would see now one, now another, looking at him, appraising him, selecting him. (London) (OBJECT)

Now I won't say another word. I am overwhelmed, crushed. (London) (ATTRIBUTE)

§ 12. Indefinite pronouns.

Indefinite pronouns point out some person or thing indefinitely. I he indefinite pronouns are some, any, somebody, anybody, someone, anyone, something, anything, one.